Great video, sir! Thank you for posting this. It takes guts to admit when you made a mistake but you recovered and made it out in one piece. Well done👍

Just did mine went from .85 to .07, what a difference! Under .08 is what the are shooting for and under .05 is fantastic from what i heard

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It's looks great without a spinner. The 108 just doesn't like spinners

Looks battle tested now

I'm always amazed by the metal work, something I have never tried. Thanks for sharing!

That's a great airport and thanks for the great video. I may have to visit it some day. John from Hayden Idaho. Home of the Pappy Boyington Museum.

Iam 82 now and live in Idaho and learned to fly and in the back country of Idaho . loved it ai had a few planes 1ft a 172 then a 1882 then we bought a new 182 for 60.000 dollers then a 180 then a 185 then 206 . but my last one was a old 180 and leaned to fly it and you get so you can just feel it . thanks love your videos. We livr in Idaho by Homedale on our kids farm . i LOVED FLYING .. keep it up.

Oh wow! That’s my friend’s 172 that he just sold to George’s aviation, and also the other “famous” 172 N490NW. These aircraft were flown 18+ hours from CA using a special ferry tank and they were well over gross. Both 172s lived in Bellingham (KBLI) and the 172 you flew was their personal aircraft for the past few years and has many very special memories attached to it. Glad to see a friend flying it in Hawaii, they’ll also be glad to see you enjoying it. Incidentally, you flooded her on the startup, that 172 always starts smooth, other than that thanks for sharing and glad you enjoyed a wonderful vacation!

My bride and I loved our fly time when in Maui. You sure had a windy day! Thanks for the ride along, it's beautiful.

Love this !!!!!!! Definitely a bucket list highlight to fly in Hawaii…

18:50 those damn cyclists always so noisy in the morning causing issues and waking people up!

That airplane looks a little nervous in time lapse

Great video. Hopefully the wx is good around the first of September. I’m planning on flying up that way to CLM form southeast Az. I may be relocating for work to the Olympic Peninsula.

Just bought a 2013 s60 t6 with 150k miles for $2,500. Had a check engine light on with 3 o2 sensor codes. Guy wanted $5,500 for it, but when I asked about the codes he said the light came on 2 years ago and his daughter has been driving it like that ever since. That's the reason I was able to talk him down to $2,500 - because I wasn't sure if the cat was plugged up. The car ran great - super smooth, perfectly balanced as you would expect - but it was running extremely rich and definitely felt sluggish. Well, I replaced both o2 sensors and the codes stayed off, but performance was still pretty bad. But rather than replacing the cat with a cheap aftermarket alternative, I just made sure to red line the engine a few times a day on the highway. And after about 2 weeks, she's running about 75% better, which is good enough for me. So long story short - change your o2 sensors. This guy lost $3,000 because he didn't

I just subscribed because I am currently working on my Private Pilot Certificate and KCLS is my home airport. I will have to look around for your plane next time I am flying in 61J.

Nice video! I like the camera preflight technique, that's a good one I haven't heard before. Some things I've learned: on the ground, also pay attention to peripheral sight picture, as your peripherals will give you a lot of information during landing if you learn how to interpret it. I had the same issue with rolls on a point. A different technique is to look out the side window and watch the wing go forward and back, and you can use the rudder to counter the forward/backward motion and make the wing travel vertically in a straight line. I found this method much easier to grasp than looking out the front at first, and then once I got the feel for it, I could do it well looking over the nose. I hope that helps, keep up the great flying!

You may want to ditch the music. I love to hear ATC, You and the engine.

SUPER! Filally flew without an engine, but I couldn’t hear how gently the variometer sings

Pronunciation correction: Neh-hay-lem Bay

Great video. I’m looking at moving back to the northwest from Arizona not sure I want to give up the year round flying but the wife wants water. It is gorgeous though.

I passed a sign in Enumclaw today saying "glider rides" and now I'm here 😂

Solid video! I think the most safety critical thing is figuring out how to take the cameras out of the equation as much as possible while flying, as you explained wonderfully. Still trying to figure out my own setup in terms of utilizing battery packs and trying to figure out cooling. It's also a little more difficult for me since I don't own my own aircraft and constantly have to flex between airplanes.

love the content brother, when is the Great Carnac coming back?

Wow! This was fascinating to watch, and very informative. Thanks for sharing this cool experience!

That Franklin is sounding good at idle

Hey man, love what you're doing! I'm starting to glide too, do you have any camera advices you could give me ?

Great tips, would like to see more maintenance content. Back when I worked on a fleet of flight school Citabrias I would hang all eight sparkplug gaskets on a piece of welding rod and heat and quench them all at once.

Hi Freedomfixer I also have a 1948 Cessna 170 since 1995 and counting. My question is do you have a fuel pump in your 48 170. I live in Canada and my new AME says that the 48 170’s need a fuel pump. So I’m researching this claim🤷‍♂️

Just to give you a hard time, but that face at the intro looks like the creepy guy offering kids candy to get in their car at an elementary school 😂. Also, thank you for the video.

49 108-3. O-435/Hartzell prop combo. Looks good from about 100’ feet out. First 55 hrs flown by Howard Piper as a demonstrator to sell the remaining planes. Great channel. Thanks!!

Good stuff. I have a '46 straight-108 with the Franklin 6A4-150-B3, based on a private airpark west of Bremerton. My wife and I are in central BC, having been on our way to Alaska last week when we lost a cylinder and diverted 50 mi to a small airport. Turned out to be a broken intake rocker arm on the #5 cylinder - this is one of the early 150s that used stamped rocker arms vs the later 150s & 165s that used forged. Valve wasn't stuck, pushrod not bent, rocker arm showed polishing along the crack line which makes me think it developed over a while. I was able to source a replacement rocker arm only 90 mi away, but the mechanic who brought & installed it isn't familiar with Franklins, and we had a hell of a time getting the lifter depressed on the exhaust valve side to get the clearance set correctly (granted, without your handy tool). We got it close enough and I flew to his shop, engine ran slightly rough at times. This morning he made up a better tool and was able to depress the lifter enough to set the .040 clearance correctly, and on test flight engine ran much smoother. Curious if you've seen much variability between your various lifters. I'm wondering if this one being so stiff is due to being gummed up with carbon or whatever, and if this might impact oil delivery to the rocker arms. Maybe hastened the failure? Above aside, we decided not to continue north to Alaska. Engine only has 100 hrs SMOH and the failure gives me qualms about taking it anywhere too remote until it's proven this is a one-off.

9:53 is where a turn with a stall is about to start.

Very awesome of you to share this. I don't fly anymore as I'm not medically fit. However, when I was flying my biggest fear was the stall/spin base to final. Because I had an instructor who preached constantly to me the need of identifying the imaginary extended runway line, my bank angles would never exceed 30 degrees and never a turn back to runway situation. Your quick and correct reaction saved your life!!!

I was there as well at the trade show it was great seeing you

Curious how you dealt with non-PMA and or field approval; for these?

Nothing can beat the the melody of a piston engine

Very grateful for your excellent video with tips , tricks , and humor. Thank you for sharing your talents. You sure do good work 🔧🛠

Mr. Freedomfixer_Flyer, Thank You, for your fabulous DIY Videos they are not only entertaining , but Wow! such good information. It is Saturday morning and I am supposed to be out doing chores and things on the Honey "DO" list. I cannot pull my self away to even make a cup of hot coco. 🛩

Nice and helpful video. Who did the cylinder rebuild and what did it cost?

Im living your mirror life 60 mile NE of you at CYYJ flying a Stinson. Ours is metalized with a 470. I’m still working out how to land it. I’ll be doing some IFR past you home field down to the water very soon. But keep that in the DL We should meet up one day when we have ADSB.

I got my taildragger in a 108-1 with a franklin. fun plane to fly. but she sank quick when it was at idle.

Came to see a flying mistake, enjoyed the prop clear screams. LOL

The ground lighting off to the right on the approach to Payne is way brighter than the runway lights. Hard to find the runway.

Skagit has been left traffic as long as I’ve been going there. FYI, a right downwind/base to 11 can put you in conflict with flowers traffic when the daffodils & tulips are in bloom. The counterclockwise flower traffic edges close to the airport, I’m always wary of left downwind traffic to runway 29. All that said, to err is human and if we’re not learning something on every flight we’re doing it wrong! All good brother 👍👍

Good job recovering. This is one of my biggest fears. My instructor wants me to "sharpen/square" up my turns on the pattern, but it's hard for me to get out of the habit of a nice lazy turn.

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So there is two of them or? i have s60 and fuel mix is really rich. Exhaust smells like gas statiton

In a light airplane, the stick/ control column pitch (AoA) will be in one place and one place only when the airplane stalls. Learn where that is and never put the stick/control column there base to final and you’ll never depart the airplane.

Thanks. I have been looking into this for years. This will make it easier.